Exam 1 - PK/PD Flashcards

1
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How many receptors need to bound to acheive the greatest effect?
Example?

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  • All receptors bound
  • Paralytics (we want total paralysis, not partial)
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2
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What are the 3 ways that drugs bond to receptors?
What type bonding is irreversible?

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  • Ionic, Hydrogen, Van der waals
  • Covalent
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3
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Differentiate competitive vs non-competitive antagonism?

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  • Competitive: giving more agonist will overcome antagonistic effects
  • Non-competitive: no amount of agonist will overcome antagonistic effects (insurmountable)
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What is a partial and inverse agonist?
Examples of inverse agonists?

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  • Partial: has less effect than full agonist even in higher doses
  • Inverse: binds at active site but causes an opposing effect from the agonist (propanolol, metoprolol, cetirizine, loratidine, prazosin, naloxone)
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5
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Upregulation vs downregulation?

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Upregulation: receptors increase in number due to low level of ligand (more sensitive)
Downregulation: receptors decrease in number due to high levels of ligand (less sensitive)

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What is tachyphylaxis?
What 2 drugs undergo this?
What condition?

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Tachyphylaxis: Rapid tolerance to a drug produce diminishing effects with each administration
- Albuterol (receptors downregulate due to repetition)
- Ephedrine (depletion of stored presynaptic catecholamines with each dose)
- Pheochromocytoma (decreased β receptors in response to catecholamines)

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7
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What drugs bind to intracellular receptors?

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  • Insulin
  • Steroids
  • Milrinone
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8
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What drug class binds to circulating proteins?

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Anticoagulants (Warfarin)

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9
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What is the vessel rich group?

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Bolused drugs first distrubute to tissues that receive the bulk of arterial blood flow: the brain, heart, kidneys, and liver.

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10
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What is meant by a high and low VD?

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High: drug distributes out of blood to tissue quickly - (lipid soluble drugs)
Low: drug stays within the cardiovascular system - (water soluble drugs)

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11
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What proteins do acidic and basic drugs bind to?

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Acidic = Albumin
Basic = ⍺1-acid glycoprotein

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12
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Why do we care if drugs are bound or not?

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  • Protein bound drugs are not available to interact with their receptors
  • Only unbound drugs can cross cell membranes
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13
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What factors/conditions can decrease plasma protein concentrations?

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  • Age
  • Liver dx
  • Renal failure
  • Pregnancy
  • Burns
  • Acidosis
  • Malnutrition
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14
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If a drugs normal free fraction is 2% and their albumin is dropped by half, what is the new free fraction?
What does this mean?

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  • 4%
  • This means with the same dose, the patient may have double the effect which usually comes with undesirable effects
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15
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What drugs have a high VD?
Why?

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  • Thiopental, diazepam, propofol
  • They are poorly protein bound and lipophilic
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16
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What drug has a low VD?
Why?

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  • Warfarin
  • It is highly protein bound
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17
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What are the Phase I reactions?
What is their purpose?

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  • Oxidation, Reduction, and Hydrolysis
  • Increases drug polarity to make them more water soluble in preparation for elimination
18
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What is the phase II reaction?
What does it do?

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  • Conjugation
  • Links covalently with a polar molecule to become more water soluble
19
Q

What does it mean when CYP enzymes have more letters/number?
What is the most common CYP enzyme for anesthetic drugs?

A
  • The enzyme group is more specific
  • CYP3A4
20
Q

Describe enzyme induction and inhibition?
Examples?

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Induction - increases activity of enzyme → increases drug metabolism → decreases drug effects (phenobarbital)

Inhibition - decreases activity of enzyme → decreases drug metabolism → increases drug effects (grapefruit juice)

21
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Hepatic clearence is ⎽ for most anesthetic drugs?

22
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What is flow limited clearance?

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  • Rate of clearance is proportional to drug concentration
  • More hepatic flow = more clearance
23
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What is capacity limited clearance?

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  • Liver metabolism is the limiting factor for drug clearance
  • Only a certain amount can be cleared, regardless of changes in flow
24
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Describe the 3 processes that govern renal clearance?

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  • Filtration: glomerulus → tubule
  • Secretion: PT capillaries → tubule (active transport)
  • Reabsorption: tubule → PT capillaries (increased for lipid soluble drugs)
25
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If a drug has a 1/2 time of 10 minutes, what fraction of drug remains after 40 mins?

26
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Why do we need to be concerned about drug half time?

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It affects dosing time. If redosed too soon, we can overdose a patient.

Ex: 100mcg of drug bolused with 1/2 time of 10 minutes.
- After 20 mins plasma conc. = 25 mcg
If redosed at 20 mins with another 100 mcg, the plasma dose would be 125 mcg.

27
Q

What is context-sensitive half time?
Why does this matter?

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  • The half time after a continuous infusion (assuming constant concentration)
  • Because many anesthetic drugs are lipid solubule and will accumulate in the tissues, meaning the longer the infusion is run, the longer the effects are seen.
28
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What does pK mean?
Why does it matter?

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  • pK is the pH at which there will a 50/50 mixture of ionized and unionized drug
  • Non-ionized drugs cross barriers better and are pharmacologically active
29
Q

When do acids and bases become ionized?

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  • Acids become ionized in alkaline pH
  • Bases become ionized in acidic pH
30
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What are some drugs we give that are weak acids and weak bases?

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Weak acids: barbituates
Weak bases: local anesthetics and opiods

31
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What is the pneumonic to remember if a drug is ionized or not?
What number are nonionized drugs?

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  • Weak Acids: pK After pH (pH - pK)
  • Weak Bases: pK Before pH (pK - pH)
  • Negative numbers: “nicely negative numbers are nonionized”
32
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What is ion trapping?

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When a non-ionized drug becomes ionized in a part of the body and accumulates.
Ex: Mother with normal pH and baby with acidic pH → local anesthetic/opiod becomes ionized in baby’s body → ionized drug can’t cross membranes and accumulates, causing a increased effect on the baby

33
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Why won’t a nerve block work well on ischemic tissues?

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Because ischemic tissues are acidodic and will cause the LA (weak base) to become very ionized in those tissues, rendering them ineffective.

34
Q

Differentiate potency and efficacy?

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Potency: dose of the drug required to produce response (less drug = more potent)
Efficacy: the ability of a drug to produce a clinical effect

35
Q

What is relative potency?
Why does it matter?

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  • The time to drug effect
  • The lag time between drug administration (plasma concentration) and effect
  • Important to understand drug onset and offset
36
Q

How do you calculate therapeutic index?

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LD50 ÷ ED50

37
Q

How do you name enatiomers the rotate light right and left?

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Right: Dextrorotatory
Left: Levorotatory

38
Q

How do you name the molecule sequence of enatiomers?

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R: Rectus (right/clockwise)
S: Sinister (left/counterclockwise)

39
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What are the properties of racemic mixtures?

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  • Contain 50/50 mixture of enatiomers
  • Optically inactive
  • One is active and one is inactive or causes side effects
40
Q

What is the enatiomer of albuterol?

41
Q

What is the enatiomer of cisatracurium?

A

Atracurium

42
Q

What is the more potent isomer of ketamine?

A

S-ketamine